‘Urbanistics’ — is the process of addressing the urban dynamics of cities through research and assessment of population densities, and patterns of evolution of both private built form and public infrastructure networks.
Through understanding population growth trends and transactional forces in the built environment, such mapping can be used to target sustainable development policies.
urbanistiX is a modern, dynamic platform that uniquely illustrates the scale and growth of the world’s largest Global Cities through visualisation and mapping of their topography, infrastructure and population patterns in an interactive manner.
This website thereby supports the collection of data from established, planned and emerging Global Cities having different typologies.
Journals
22. Singapore + extract (James Morris)
“The British created modern Singapore in the flush of their early Victorian vigour, transforming a fishing village into a great port, and celebrated stronghold, a rich and vital city. They founded their settlement on a swampy island at the southern tip of Malaya, partly to thwart their rivals the Dutch, partly to serve as a way-station used on the Eastern trade routes, partly to be a trade centre in its own right.”
21. Berlin + extract (Alan Balfour)
“The year is 1737. The place is the westward edge of Berlin. A sector is being created to provide an ordered reality for a newly emerging urban aristocracy. It will symbolize the emergence of German culture from rural feudalism into an appearance of ‘enlightenment’ and reason. At the same time, the last expansion of the fortification that had been closed the city since its foundation 1237 is being set out.”
20. Nairobi + extract (Karen Blixen)
‘The site of Nairobi on the equator was selected originally as a settlement at the turn of the 20th century when the British were developing a new railway line from Kenya to Uganda. By a small river before climbing the Limuru escarpment, having a good climate and with its higher elevation, the nature and surrounding environs of the Rift Valley of the emerging place were as broadly described in the opening words of Blixen’s ‘Out of Africa’’.
‘Global City Typologies: Transactional Forces in Urbanised Development’
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